Quotes About Perception

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

I have stopped looking at roles as lead or parallel lead. Also, I feel these are very misleading terms.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.

Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.